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Gal with a gun rouses US right

IF YOU go down to the woods today, make sure you are wearing a bright orange safety vest and hope that Shemane Nugent is not hiding behind a bush with a .38 revolver tucked in her belt and a steel-tipped arrow loaded in her hunting bow.

America’s blonde huntress stormed into Washington last week to introduce the capital’s urban elite to a growing political phenomenon: gals who like guns.

The ladylike decorum of a Conservative Women’s Network luncheon was abruptly shattered by a rabble-rousing speech from the co-author of Kill It & Grill It, a guide to arguably the simplest diet ever published in America: “Kill stuff, add fire and enjoy,” Nugent urged her audience.

Nugent’s presence in a conference hall at the Heritage Foundation — one of Washington’s best-known conservative think tanks — reflected her intriguing transition from the wronged wife of a wayward rock star into a right-wing political icon.